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Killing Two Birds With One Stone Hell
Now I've known people who take advantage of their retail sales gigs by extending employee discounts to friends and family without company permission. Or better, those who left might make a killing by acting as a "middleman' between their old company and the manufacturer when it comes to a drop off. Or them and a couple of friends can just have a boost hustle. And no, I do not speak from experience!Anyway, this nimrod here got it all wrong. She scoped out the place (OK, we should all do research about a prospective employer), interviewed, left a resume - and then decided to steal some interview clothes.
Damn, lady there's a Dress for Success operation in almost every North American city. The clothes you stole may be just as used as the clothes you could have gotten for free! Doofus.
Learn How to Become an Instructor
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Have you ever thought about teaching your own online class?
If you have a skill, you can earn money teaching it! (and EVERYONE has a skill!)
Do you know how to sew, knit, or make an awesome scrapbook? If so, you can teach it online!
Do you know how to use social media, customize blogs, or grow asuccessful VA business? If so, you can teach others how to do thosethings in your own online class!
This is a great way to grow your business, reach new customers AND earn an extra couple hundred dollars each month!
Sound difficult? It's not! It's surprisingly easy to get started!
Sound expensive to get started? Guess what? It's NOT! In fact, there areno-cost teleconferencing services, no-cost web rooms, no-cost screenrecorders and other no-cost or low-cost services you can use!
This is a great time to start thinking about teaching your own class.The 'back to school' vibe will be in full force soon, and people areready to learn new things!
If you are interested in learning how to start your own class, check outthe How To Teach An Online Class workshop. It will be starting August16 and last for four weeks and will be taught by Crissy Herron of IndieBiz Chicks.
You will be receiving weekly written lessons, video lessons, haveprivate email coaching with Crissy , and access to weekly web chats.
Crissy will walk you through every step of setting up your class. By thetime the workshop is over, you'll be ready to enroll your own students.
That means, you could be earning a few extra hundred dollars this September!
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City Workers From Hell
It is not a crime to be a humble, microscopic town but to $hit on one deserves a public castration. When it was discovered earlier this month how much these city officials were getting every year (some were getting six figures for PART TIME EMPLOYMENT), I wanted to put them under Twin Towers with those Chicago sized rats and have a camera installed to catch the decay of bodies. Here's a more in-depth account from L.A. Times.
Here's some pretty compelling video at a recent hearing.
Freelance Clients From Hell
I have one called Mrs. Moraga (and that is her real name) I found on craigslist back in 2006. In short, she was a lazy-@ss copywriter who used newbie writers to do her work for pennies. And then shorted the writers by blaming PayPal. Here's a detailed account about people to avoid on craigslist but with a pseudonym.Well, here's some powerful testimony at Whispers and Warnings where some folks who have a whole lot more to worry about besides a few pennies. Some of these are large companies and some were so severe that they had to get an attorney. Ouch!
Business Posture From Hell...For the Ladies, Anyway
Now let me get this straight.As a woman, I have to have equal or better education than a man that is competing for the same position. And unless I am extremely "charming" or already know someone who works for the same company, I have to be presentable at all times. Meaning if I decide to wear my clean tennis shoes because my feet are swollen courtesy of Aunt Flo or I'm about to give birth, I get twice the criticism a guy would get because he's wearing Air Jordan's and they cost damn near $200.
Or if I approach someone with a question and remind them - without yelling, using profanity, pointing my finger in their face or any other gesture than could be considered rude, bitchy or aggressive (this will go in my files, btw). Meanwhile, my three-legged friend who exhibits the same behavior is a go-getter, really going places - and of course ....he's assertive.
Anyway, there's more to add to the list of things we've done wrong besides refuse to stay at home. Its not on the GENEROUS site because you never know, some exec might decide to slum in between CNN and Motley Fool websites. Courtesy of Forbes.com.
Bartering System From Hell
Alternative recording artist Kelis, who in the past year, has both given birth and gone through a divorce from rapper NAS. While seeking a pretty hefty alimony settlement (I believe she was eventually awarded $50K/month), she needed to get back to work. Since NAS is somewhere between Jay-Z and JJ Fad (they made that Supersonic song back in 1987/88), meaning he may or may not have THAT kind of green.
Anyway, Kelis got producers for her new CD, Fleshtone, to work for food . Now, she did graduate from culinary school between recordings but are times that hard? Really? As much as I loooove to eat (believe me, I've got the hips to show it) and watch the Food Channel, you would have to pay me to eat anything cooked by someone with pink hair and black eyebrows.
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Future Prospects to Work in Hell
Now, this isn't all bad since the companies are not making as much $ as they once were but working retail has its advantages,like profit-sharing options. According to this NY Times article , Sam's Club has an exceptional deal for small biz owners as well as other ops that may benefit job seekers and others.If you have nothing against that whole Sam Walton enterprise thing or was once overworked by the company, here's a chance to get some spare change since the SBA-like loan approval rate is almost half.
Even Chefs Can Learn About Life From Cooking Shows
Thanks to Michelle Macphearson for the post.
I'm addicted to cooking shows. I watch them constantly. My directtvsatellite TV DVR is always full of hours and hours of cooking shows. I'm a professional chef and even I manage to learn new and exciting things from cooking shows every day. My satellite TV provider has recently added a second 24 hour cooking channel so in addition to Food Network we now have the Cooking Channel.
The Cooking Chanel is an amazing mixture of old Food Network reruns, new shows, and best of all classics like Graham Kerr's Galloping Gourmet. The Galloping Gourmet is great; it is a marvelous time capsule of the late sixties globetrotting gourmand lifestyle. The show starts with history and footage of Graham discovering the dish he is about to make in some European restaurant; he then spends the next 15 minutes joking and trying to fumble his way through cooking the dish. The show is an amazing resource; not only do we learn about the food and how to make it; you learn about a lost part of our culture.
This is the beauty of cooking, It's not only about food; a large part of culture is tied to food. When you learn about food you are also learning history and culture. Cooking shows enlighten us and bring us together; I'm so happy I have satellite TV and have so many viewing opportunities.
Fresh From Working Hell...It's a Guest Blogger
By: Addie Newman
I have had many jobs over the years and some of them ranked OK while others were just mildly annoying but I kept a bottle of Tylenol nearby, just in case. When it came to my last horrid place of employment, I thought a bottle of Jack Daniels was apropos. The good news is that I am no longer there with plenty of stories from my years in work hell.
I will start with what I consider to be one of the worst jobs out there - working in lending at a financial institution! This began just over three years ago after my first round of graduate school went bust and I needed full time work in the worst way. I had worked as a teller part time for a couple of years and thought going full time would be a good learning experience. I was more wrong than leather in summer but here's my take of working in lending.
As I began this new job in Lending, I had no idea what my job duties were and didn’t know for a couple of months while I assisted my co-workers with their work instead. Not only would my boss at the time begin to contradict herself in my reviews, but she would start trying to break me by giving me the damn grunt work - filing 600-700 loan packets per month in heavy drawers, matching titles to packets, incoming mail for the entire lending department that had to be sorted and researched, paid off loans, and other miscellaneous office duties. Hello, I’m happy to have a job but isn’t this why most companies have a clerical or secretarial department. And even though my responsibilities grew over time, all I got was a friggin’ $0.35 raise.
That’s right, I could make a 20-minute phone call, buy a small pack of Doublemint gum or hot dog from the convenience store. I got so damn depressed one time that I almost got that hot dog just so that I could go to ER for food poisoning and not have to look at my wretched boss lady.
It would get “better” though as my co-workers and boss would show what kind of people they really are.
